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NEIGHBOURHOOD

In the last edition of the Kourier I wrote about returning to my volunteer role at the Neighbourhood Police office in Parklands. My first returning attendance was to an empty office, but the following week was very different with many officers present, resulting in a very short visit. That’s the problem, in that policing demands mean that social distancing and PC availability can never be guaranteed. Of over 180 mail message in my Inbox, very few needed urgent NW attention. To try to help with mail routing, I have set my police e-mail auto-answer to refer to my BDNW e-mail address and so far, only 1 mail has been redirected to me. As a result of this, I am considering fortnightly or even monthly police visits as well as maybe changing location to the PIC where it seems that social distancing should be much easier. Very few Alert messages have been issued and the small number of Press Releases received, have been put onto the BDNW website for any interested persons to read. Also the latest Crime Prevention advice from Inspector Lane will be there by the time you read this update.

WATCH

I have noticed that around our area there are many NW signs in poor condition. In some cases I know that replacement overlays have been supplied but do not seem to have been fitted. In a few cases, it seems obvious the NW interest is no longer there, thus giving criminals confirmation that nobody is bothered or watching the area. Unfortunately signs are now quite expensive and so the local association may not be able to continue with free replacements and may have to charge a nominal fee. As National NW said in their recent campaign, “Life’s safer when you know your neighbours. With more people looking out for unusual behaviour, burglaries and other crimes can often be prevented”. A properly signed and working NW area goes a long way to keeping things safer. Are you part of NW and is your local scheme working ? Do you want to start a scheme ? Although Ourwatch allows persons to propose themselves as ‘Self Declared NW Coordinators’, Basingstoke has always had a policy of police checks to try to ensure that any potential new coordinator has a clean record before commencing any NW role. So far, despite the COVID difficulties, several new coordinators and schemes have been checked and approved around the borough. As pupils return to schools, it is worth mentioning the sad fact that in the Hampshire Police area, the number of young persons carrying weapons has more than doubled. For everyone’s safety it is vital that parents are aware of what their young persons might have about their persons. Much better to have an early police official warning, than an injured child or even far worse. Similarly with meetings of large groups of persons of all ages - please obey the rules to stay safe. A concerning issue that has come to light is that NW coordinators including myself are being contacted by phone or e-mail about crimes taking place. It is vital that the person witnessing any crime in progress should themselves report it straight away, to the police using 999 if necessary or to 101 or the police website if it is not urgent. In virtually all cases, police need to refer back to the witnesses, if and when an investigation needs to take place. Don’t be afraid to make that call, our officers are quite easy to deal with and they do appreciate help from the public. At BDNWA the committee is considering ZOOM meetings instead of face to face gatherings. We had an initial ZOOM meeting a few days ago and it went really well. For the duration of COVID-19 my police email is unlikely to be available and I’m still volunteering mainly from home, please send feedback and comments to brian.adams@bdnw.org.uk which gets sent on to me so I can respond, but please allow a few days for a reply. Kind regards

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Kempshott School News Kempshott infant School

It has been absolutely lovely to welcome everyone to our ‘new normal’ at Kempshott Infant School! The buzz as the children arrived on the first morning was so exciting and joyful; the children, and the parents, happy to be back at school! We would like to thank all our families for their support and patience with our Do you want to make a differen staggered timings and following the routes around school.

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academic year starting September 2020 Our very grown-up and responsible Year 2 children are settling in to new classrooms and getting to know their teachers. school (including those joining from Sep community who feel that they could ma Their topic, ‘What makes me amazing!’ is a great way to get to know each other as they talk about things they are good at We are incredibly proud of our school, o shaping the school’s strategic direction and things they enjoy doing. The children have discussed skills that they would like to improve and things they would improvement. We typically don’t get inv like to learn more about. They have also found out that it is fine to make mistakes and that is how we learn. Passion for making a difference is th

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interest from underrepresented social g The Year 1 topic is ‘Sensational Senses.’ The children are enjoying touching, tasting, listening, looking and smelling andand training you wil receive the support spend around 7 hours a thinking about how their senses tell them more about the world. They are becoming familiar with the map of Most thegovernors United school. At Kempshott Junior School, w Kingdom and contrasting urban and rural areas. They are finding out more about our local area as well, so keep your eyes peeled as they will be out and about in Kempshott counting vehicles and looking at street furniture! What do we need from you? 

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in allwith aspects of school life. Yo Year 1 and Year 2 are really enjoying Move-It Mondays when each year group have a sporty day with extra time  A natural curiosity, helping you Lyndsey our sports coach and lots of active lessons. Year R are going to join in soon, once they are a bit quicker at  getting An ability to listen to the ideas o changed! What we offer:

 A group of governors, led by a As for Year R, well, they are settling in beautifully! Striding into school with ever-increasing confidence, organising positive difference to children’s  An opportunity for personal dev themselves independently and developing delightful friendships as they wash their hands once again! different context and through th

It may be a new normal, but that new pencils, new shoes, September feeling never changes!

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We are so proud of all of our children for their brilliant transition back to school, the families who have supported them and our staff for their continued hard work. Thank you to all and stay safe! Autumn term has started with the summer sunshine which has enabled continued outdoor learning and time out in the fresh air. New books have been started and ambitions set for this year. Year 3 have become brave adventurers, Year 4 are becoming volcanoes experts, Year 5 have set sights on maintaining their super hero status and Year 6 are exploring the emotional subject of World War 2. Kempshott Junior School continue to support Spotlight charity this year due to the complications of last year! Whilst the school are raising money for Spotlight through sweet sales, ice cream sale, a non- uniform day for mental health The Rabbiter - April 2009 support in schools and a film club, Spotlight are supporting the school and have offered a range of exciting things to pupils including sports clubs, English tuition, Maths tuition and language tuition! Here’s to a great year supporting a charity that supports so many of our families in Kempshott, In Basingstoke and the surrounding areas.

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KEMPSHOTT UNDER FIVES PRESCHOOL

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NEWS FROM CRANBOURNE We all returned to school on Monday morning and it is great to have the school full again! We have all missed each other!

Our plan is to keep ourselves and our community super safe, so that we never have to close again. We have a high level of infection control, students and staff have adapted to the “new normal” with ease. After a summer of uncertainty, the GCSE results came through and were well deserved. We congratulate the Class of 2020 again for their excellent GCSE and for their great resilience and commitment despite a turbulent final year of Secondary School. We wish them luck as they start their journeys at College and in the workplace. The most exciting news came this week. After years of trying, we have had Planning Permission for our new school Swimming Pool! The new pool is just as big, but has a state of the art, environmentally sustainable roof, heating system and changing rooms. We want to thank our Dutch and German Architects, 4 Green Architecture for their amazing plans, which will provide an important community resource for all of us for years to come! Headteacher

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In previous years in October Fuzzy Drove Conservation Group volunteers would be starting to coppice the Hazel which grows in Fuzzy Drove, coppicing is a woodland management method in which the wood from a tree is harvested by cutting a suitable tree near ground level. It subsequently regrows over a period of years without needing to be replanted. The two photos show one Hazel which was coppiced a year ago and the other two years ago, as you can see the Hazel thrives and puts on a lot of growth which is straight and ideal for use as garden poles for flowers and beans. Coppicing is done on rotation, small areas of a woodland are cut each year in sequence leaving the areas not being cut to grow on for between 15 and 20 years for chestnut, and about 7 - 10 years for hazel. When an area of coppice is cut, it is all cut down, and creates a clearing. This periodic coppicing encourages the individual trees to live for many years. If the coppice cycle is managed correctly it can increase biodiversity in the woodland because of the beneficial effects of varying light levels reaching the woodland floor, and the range of different aged trees and stools in the woodland. The best time to coppice is in the autumn and winter when the sap has gone down, and certainly well before the sap rises in the spring. In southern Britain, coppice was traditionally hazel, hornbeam, field maple, ash, sweet chestnut, occasionally sallow, elm, small-leafed lime and rarely oak, beech, sessile oak, ash or beech standards. In wet areas alder and willows were used. You may have noticed that the half of the Drove towards the cycle path and farm fields is narrower as the undergrowth is doing well, this is due to the fact that the council lorry is not using the Drove to collect rubbish from the bins but instead using the roads to access them. This will help the Drove’s wildlife while also making it a safer area for us all to enjoy.

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Our War on Ragwort. We have an excellent relationship with Worting Scouts. When they approached us to suggest suitable work that individual "socially distanced" groups of scouts could undertake, we jumped at the chance. There were a number of jobs, but after a site walk with one of the leaders, we plumped for them pulling Ragwort on Down Grange Meadow, as this did not involve bladed tools, such as secateurs or loppers. The first session was at the end of August and while the turnout was restricted due to fine weather and families being on holiday, a substantial amount of Ragwort was lifted. The picture shows the "socially distanced" group with the results of their efforts, not a spike of ragwort in sight! More………………………..

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and Conservation AND CONSERVATIONNews NEWSfor FOROctober OCTOBER Despite the hard work, this did not put them off and they are planning to return for a number of shorter sessions. Ragwort is a potentially invasive species and while we like a little to encourage the Cinnabar Moth, a spectacular pink moth which we recorded for the first time earlier this year, you can, as the saying goes, have too much of a good thing. Fungi Warning. After some spectacular rain, we noticed a rash of mushrooms in the "Jubilee Copse" section of the Meadow. These turned out to be Brown Roll-Rim (Paxillus involutus). They are common mushrooms which are deadly poisonous, so should not be touched and definitely not eaten. Work Party Dates. We will be publishing our planned dates in next month’s Kempshott Kourier, but upto-date information on whether a session will go ahead and what restrictions apply can be found on our website "kempshottconservationgroup.org.uk".

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The trees and bushes on the two sites are now displaying the beautiful colours of autumn. Both sites have lots of dogwood which in autumn turn to the most beautiful shades of orange, tan and red with bunches of berries that start off red and then turn to black. This is an attractive shrub as it gives the most beautiful colours during the seasons but sadly it does have to be kept in check by removal or chopping back because it is so robust and invasive and can overwhelm other plants. At this time of year there are very few wildflowers about but there are some late ones such as scabious and toadflax. There are three strains of scabious on the sites - field scabious, small scabious and devil’s bit scabious. The first two are a pale lilac; the latter is darker with a slightly smaller flower head that is a fairly tight globe. They are very attractive to insects such as hoverflies, bees and butterflies.

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During October the Council will be mowing various parts of Old Down (as agreed with the Group). In the coming weeks and months the Group has plans to plant tree saplings, hedgerow shrubs and snowdrop bulbs. And there is much tidying up and cutting back to be done. So help is needed please. Work Parties – At last the Council has given the go ahead for work parties to start. It is hoped that the first work party on Old Down will be early October (meeting at the Hall at 10 am) but please check the Group’s website and Facebook page (Old Down and Beggarwood Wildlife Group) for confirmation of the exact date. Unfortunately we have not yet been able to arrange work parties on Beggarwood. Please look at our Facebook page for regular photos of the sites and their wildlife. Internet: www.olddownandbeggarwood.org.uk

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HOW AND WHY I BECAME A GP The Probus Club of Basingstoke heard from one of their members, Dr Nick Waring, who was a partner for many years at the Gillies Health Centre in Brighton Hill, about what prompted his medical calling.

His father was involved with the St John’s Ambulance Brigade and that he also manufactured surgical needles encouraged Nick Waring’s interest in medicine. Joining the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff in 1966 he qualified five years later although training and exams carried on for several years. He recalled many instances during student training that showed that practicing on patients was part of the curriculum. There was a saying “see one, do one, teach one.” Two examples that demonstrated how medicine had progressed was when he had to clerk (take a history) of an octogenarian who, when aged only 3, had been operated on by Lord Lister, the man who introduced antiseptics. Another was when his professor of bacteriology told that he had once been tasked with transporting, in his briefcase, the “world” supply of antibiotics. The first baby he delivered as a student arrived on a hot and humid evening (no air con then), the day man landed on the moon. It was a boy and, of course, named Neil. His first paid job was in Southampton working for Prof Donald Acheson, the first Dean of the new Southampton medical school who went on to become the national Chief Medical Officer and then to work for WHO. Even though now qualified as a doctor, vocational training was being developed which involved two more years in various jobs in hospital followed by another year as a trainee. At this stage he could have been accepted into a general practice and after 3 years working up to parity he could become a full profit sharing partner. Unlike today, there were very few GPs then salaried or part time or indeed female. To gain further experience, after Southampton he had three jobs in Cardiff, a stint in Wrexham and returned to Cardiff for a trainee year. Having spent a year in children’s medicine he could see that there was great competition in Wales for higher positions in paediatrics with demanding work rotas and further exams. General practice seemed an altogether better option and he has never regretted it. In 1972 he started in Basingstoke as a GP with a personal list growing from 0 to 3,500 in about eighteen months. This needed an on-call rota system working one night in five with a full day’s work either side. Probably half of the maternity patients delivered under the care of the practice and it was surprising how many went into labour in the middle of the night. There were no mobile phones in those days so out of hours calls came from home via a pager necessitating finding a phone to re-plan the route around the patch. His low point came when he was called out of bed five times after midnight. The change to the Hantsdoc co-op came just in time as most GPs were on their knees. Patient records were, in those days, hand written on cards, kept in a brown envelope and stored in filing cabinets. Introducing computerisation made a significant difference allowing the practice to tailor their provision of service to improve care although for a few years, as required by the NHS payment system, they had to duplicate information by maintaining hand written records. It does mean that with increasing work loads patients have less continuity of care as ancillary staff take on more of the roles traditionally carried out by a GP. It is a very different job to the one he started out with. Since retiring in 2007, despite his medical experience, he has become increasingly aware of how difficult it is to know when to seek medical help. He appreciates how much more problematic it can be for people to decide either to self-care or use the medical service responsibly. But it is better to call unnecessarily than not call at all when you need to. See www.probusbasingstoke.club

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earningsChat from employment, including benefits in kind such as online: citizensadvice.org.uk/contact-us Website: www.basingstokeandtadleycab.org.uk company car Citizens advice website www.citizensadvice.org.uk Or search on the National  earnings from self-employment BASINGSTOKE LIONS CLUBincome, including state, occupational and per  most pensions The Zoom Quiz: We had our zoom quiz night on the first of August. Seventeen teams entered, but three pensions failed at the first hurdle, couldn’t make the zoom connection. The Quizmaster nearly fell into that category which would have been a real disaster. Thesecurity next problem benefits was how long to leave between questions. The  some social answer seems to be 18-20 seconds. Our usual top team, “Haute Quizine”, won proving that honour is alive and well. Financially it was a success. They say most half a loafsavings is better than no bread, but this was crumbs. But, as my ancestors  not interest on would have said, “Ay a mickle maks a muckle” so we’ll try again.  income from shares (dividends) The Business Meeting: This was supposed to be face to face at the British Legion. In fact due to a variety of circumstances  and rental we had half on zoom half in income the hall social distancing, with the whole kit and caboodle under the control of Lion President. It went well for everyone but the minute taker who ended up with paranoid schizophrenia and got hauled  income from a trust. over the coals for getting several important matters of financial significance completely wrong. The minutes had to be 

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There are four key steps to computational thinking: ● Decomposition - breaking down a complex problem or system into smaller, more manageable parts ● Pattern Recognition – looking for similarities among and within problems ● Abstraction – focusing on the important information only, ignoring irrelevant detail ● Algorithms - developing a step-by-step solution to the problem, or the rules to follow to solve the problem The process of decomposition is to take the task or problem and work out the best way solve it. A simple example would be making a cup of tea. Working through all the steps to achieve the right cup of tea requires precise analysis. Missing out a simple but crucial step will result in failure. For example, if your first step is “switch on the kettle” then you’ve made the assumption that there is water already in the kettle, but this might not be the case. A more complex example is taking a completed project, such as a car engine, and then working backwards to understand what’s required to make another one. A classic example used to demonstrate CT is summing all the number from 1 to 200. You could start buy adding 1+2 to get 3. Then add 3+3 to get 6 and keep a running total. Whilst this works, it’s not particularly efficient, especially when the number count could increase from 200 to 13,232. An easier solution is to take 1+200 and get 201. Then take 2+199, which also equals 201, 3+198= 201, etc. That leads nicely to Pattern Recognition. By spotting a pattern to the problem we can often simplify the number of steps required to solve the issue. In our simple example, we can already see that taking the ascending low number and add to the descending high number, we always get 201. Pattern recognition is also about looking at other problems and finding similarities. Planes have used the science of aerodynamics to create machines that fly in the air but car manufacturers saw how smoothing parts of the bodywork helped to make cars more efficient by directing airflow around the body in a more effective way. Formula 1 cars use the exact same principle of an airplane wing but instead of creating lift they turn the wing upside down to create downforce allowing the car to exert more grip when cornering. Abstraction is a key part of the solution as we need to identify what’s not important. And issue can become more complex when focusing on unnecessary elements. For instance, with the “cup of tea” example, we don’t need to know how the kettle works. We just need to understand that in order to get hot water, the kettle requires water and power. Abstraction is linked to pattern recognition. If you are asked to draw a series of cats you know the general characteristics, which are common to all cats, eg eyes, a tail, fur, a liking for fish and the ability to make meowing sounds. In addition, each cat has specific characteristics; such as black fur, a long tail, green eyes, a love of salmon and a loud meow. These details are known as specifics. In order to draw a basic cat, we do need to know that it has a tail, fur and eyes. These characteristics are relevant. We don't need to know what sound a cat makes or that it likes a specific type of fish. These characteristics are irrelevant and should be filtered out through abstraction. If we look back at the simple equation, we don’t need to make a note of ALL the pairs because they are all the same. We just need to know how many pairs. We can determine how many pairs of numbers are needed by simply dividing the 200 by 2 giving us 100 pairs. From this we can create a simple formula. (200 + 1) * (200 / 2) = 20,100 The last step is the Algorithm which involves creating a step-by-step instruction to solve the problem. A classic, and complicated algorithm was used during the Apollo 13 disaster. The three astronauts went into the Lunar Module however, the module wasn’t designed for three astronauts together; only two. The extra astronaut overloaded the carbon dioxide scrubbers in the lunar module but there was a problem. The lunar module used cylindric scrubbers while the command module used cubic ones. So, the NASA ground crew have to formulate a solution and write clear instructions on how convert the scrubbers. This list of instructions is the algorithm. In our maths example, we can break this down into three simple instructions. 1) Add the highest and the lowest number together. 2) Divided the highest number by 2 and, 3) Multiple the result of step one with the result of step 2. 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CAIRNS, REMEMBERING STONES AND A NEW ‘NORMAL’? Transition & Transformation

my children were young I loved getting Hello. My name is Debbie Veel. I am one of the Licensed Lay Ministers (LLM’s or Readers they are sometimeswere known)young at St. Mark’s church. LLM’s are notready ordained,for so wethe don’t really love new this uniform season….the children I loved getting w books, Inew classes, and autumn term. Whenasmy wear a dog collar, but we can do much of what a vicar can do with some notable return to school in September… new books, new classes, new uniform and new shoes. I couldn’t wait for the to turn….followed by the darker days of exceptions. We can’t bless the communion wine and bread; we can’t marry people nor leaves to begin to turn….followed by the darker days ofbaptise October, wonderful gifts….and do we anyone.with Interestingly enough, weHarvest can lead funerals. Other thanthen that we remembering others in November. preach, lead worship, prayer and mid-week groups and we are involved in the running of the church. I think remembering others in November.

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Last month DebbieI am wrote about the Remembering Stones project. It was great to see so writing this month because, as you may or may not know, the Rev. Kelvin and Jane Taylor left St. Mark’s many of you contribute this They over few weeks. Here of Many whatexciting the at the endto of May. hadthe been last with us for nine years and we areissadatopicture see them go. things have happened in the churchto andpress. community under photos their leadership. cairn looked like when this article went More will be available on our website www.saintmarks.org.uk For as examplethe project develops. we have started a messy church (very informal craft, food, a short celebration and lots of fun for families of all ages 2.30pm -5pm every third Saturday);

Remembering is important as we the many milestones in our livesforand those we notice have started doing the fabulous ‘Open the Book’ assemblies the Y4’s in the junior school; Saturday @ Saint Mark’s (2nd young Saturday of the month from whom we love. I am actually writing thisstarted article as children and people have 9:30am) which is an informal chance to learn such things as your ancestry, try flower started the new term in September. Facebook has been awash with back to school photos arranging go for walks or bike rides round Kempshott or find out about various things to do with IT or further of excited childreneducation. plus some not so happy or Worker compliant young people! Our memories We have employed an Outreach and renovated our kitchen at church – if you have ever used the old kitchen at St. extend to keeping things such as our favourite cuddly toys in adult hood, significant birthday cards or programmes y milestones in our lives and those whom Mark’sfrom you know whatof state it was in! All of this much of more from a theatre visit. I’ve kept the hospital identity tags both our children inand a box memories. Remembering is under Kelvin’s leadership. en and young people have started newof it… important and this is the the season Kelvin and Jane are off on a well-deserved long holiday to their h back to school photos of excited favourite place- the we Greekhear islands.about We wish them well, as I amfamily sure In the Bible we hear stories about remembering…..In Genesis Noah, his and an ark of animals ung people! extend to many of you do also. thatOur arememories saved from the flood. When the waters have receded, God makes an everlasting covenant; an agreement with n adult hood, cards or that there will never It is abe time of change and transition them and foris theachurch. Noahsignificant and everybirthday living creature another flood. Theforrainbow sign of that promise, a way of remembering. those people who helped usYou so may much in thejob;last sixmoving months, spital identity tags fromRainbows both of ourhave also helped us remember It may well be a time of change and have transition for you too. be changing maybe house; havingrole a newto baby; getting married; leaving home for the firstto time to go to university displayed or to travel. There those who have gone above and beyond their normal keep us safe. It’s been lovely see rainbows in mportant and this is the season of it… may also be some less pleasant changes happening in your life- divorce, unemployment, bereavement. windows and many are still there now. In the church’s year, the weeks just gone still form part of the ‘Easter Season’. It was a time of transition and ..In Genesis wetalks hearabout aboutremembering Noah, his Jesus when he shares a final supper He asks that they with remember him through change for Jesus’with discipleshis too.friends. They had travelled around the country Jesus, listening to him teach and preach, watching himso do miracles and healings. But they hadn’t understood ‘what was really about.’ he flood.the When the waters have receded, sharing of bread and wine. Many Christians continue to do thousands of years later,quite following his he teaching and sharing Holy Communion together. And although this is somewhat limited at the moment, St Mark’s continues to On Easter Sunday and on many occasions after that they met the risen Lord Jesus, and during this time, nt with Noah and every living creature that before He ascended to heaven, theyat began to understand all that He was teaching and explaining to them celebrate Holy Communion during a simple service on Sunday evenings 6.30pm. If you would like to join us please a sign of that promise, a way of about God and about how much He loves each and every one of us. They finally did begin to comprehend book in via our website. ‘what He was really about.’ ember those people who have helped us Many of what are called resurrection appearances in the Bible involve eating. This is important because it Remembering is important andtothis is the season for it…. one above and beyond their normal role

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layed inAt windows andwe many are still there Harvest remember the provision of food. We are thankful for those who grow it, produce it and organise its Often the disciples didn’t immediately recognize Jesus-‘he was the same but different.’ The best analogy of delivery into shops or markets - this year even morethis so.is when We remember don’t enough eat comment by giving giftsis maybe you havethose had yourwho hair done or gethave new glasses. Oftento people that there a bitthe different about you’Centre but they cannot place their finger on it. bank. This year of food to local residents and also contribute to the‘something work of Camrose and quite Basingstoke Food final supper withwill his friends. He asks that If you would normally Harvest look a little different. usperiod, please consider During thishelp transition Jesus appeared tomaking his disciples a in pairs, groups and once to 500 people in one go. This tells us that Jesus’ resurrection appearances couldn’t have been a hallucination. It is unlikely that 2 and wine. Many Christians continue to do donation to Basingstoke Food Bank https://basingstoke.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donatemoney/ or 3 people, let alone 500 would have had the same hallucination! and sharing Holy Communion together. Transition is unsettling often make us feel illand at easeAll - ItSouls was for the disciples, it is for us at St. Mark’s As October moves into November we remember All Saints day onand1st November day on 2nd November. ment, St Halloween Mark’s continues to celebrate and it may well be for you. We wonder, “What we’ll do?” and “How we will manage?” Jesus promised to on 31st October is linked to All Saints day on 1st November. Hallow means to “honour as holy” and you may send his disciples a ‘helper’, which we call the Holy Spirit, to guide & support them and enable them to ay evenings at 6.30pm. you would likesecond to remember this Ifword from the line in the Lord’s Prayer: manage and find a way through.

“Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name” for it…. Halloween comes from contracting "All Hallows' Eve" meaning "All Saints' Eve”. On All Saints day believers remember the saints and martyrs, and unknown throughout Christian history who are now in heaven. All Souls is the We are thankful for those who growknown it, following day. This is an opportunity for local families to remember their loved ones before God, giving thanks to Him markets - this year even more so. We for their lives and all that they had meant to us. Our service on All Souls is due to take place on 1st November and will y giving gifts fooddifferent to local residents look of quite this yearand due to the current guidelines. Please do check on our website for the current advice and e and Basingstoke Food bank. This year service information. rmally help us please consider making a At our All Souls service we usually invite members of the community to remember their loved ones by lighting a candle

in memory of them. Do let us know if you would like us to do this on your behalf at our service on 1st November. Please contact Kim in the Parish Office on office@saintmarks.org.uk or 01256 840502. After remembering Guy Fawkes on 5th November, we come to Remembrance Sunday on the second Sunday in November. A service to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts. A time to pause and reflect on war and conflict and pray for peace. In our Remembrance service, we remember those who gave up their lives for their country especially those who lived locally. Our list of names is somewhat limited with no details of the most recent conflicts. If you have any local knowledge of service personnel who lost their lives during in recent times; from 1970’s onwards we would be pleased to add them to our Roll of Honour. Please contact the Parish Office on the details above. Remembering is important and this is the season for it….

ane Taylor left St. Mark’s them go. Many exciting

Let us remember this year, its difficulties and also the moments of hope and joy. Let us not forget those who have worked tirelessly to provide food, goods, healthcare and so much more. Let us remember our loved ones, our friends, and our

29 neighbours. Let us remember how good it feels to hug someone we love. As a community of believers at St Mark’s, we remember that Jesus loved us so much that he gave his life for us – we remember him by celebrating his birth at Christmas and his death and resurrection at Easter. Let us always continue to remember. God bless

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